Question

I have a web page with a button that opens up a popup page like this:

<input type = "button" value = "Start" onclick = 'window.open("path/to/html/page", "some_name", "type=fullWindow,fullscreen,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,status=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=no")'")' >

The popup points to an html page that contains a frameset, which in turn has one frame that loads a flash file. This flash contains some interaction elements (similar to textbox input).

Once the popup opens, typing on the keyboard does nothing; you have to click on the flash file to actually bring it to focus so that it intercepts keyboard input. Is there a way to make this happen automatically?

Answer 1

After the page has been rendered, use

document.getElementById("flashID").focus();

in the page that is bieng loaded. ( Where flashID is the id of the swf in the page. )

But then there is no one way to do this across all browsers…

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I found this link & this discussion relating to your query. Perhaps they could help.